There are several cafes that I go to to get work done. The one I visit most often is the Argo Tea on Broadway, just on the edge of Boystown, Chicago's gay neighborhood.

Sitting, as I am at this very moment, I have a few out of Argo's windows and across the street, looking at a Thai restaurant and an American Apparel.

Back in the summer months I showed up here for tea as usual, and the American Apparel had a huge piece of plywood boarding up one of their windows. "Do you know what happened there?" I asked Byron. He laughed and informed me that a guy had broken a window and stolen one of the mannequins.

I rolled my eyes. "They broke in just to steal a mannequin?" Only in Boystown.